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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you give an example of the woke stuff at ITS? [/quote]

They're often talking and talking and talking about equity using all the modern terminology, but their actions just don't match up.  Like today-- three half days more than what was already scheduled, and the school is paying so that families enrolled in YMCA aftercare can have free care.  But everyone who's not enrolled in the aftercare (which costs way more than DCPS aftercare!) is just SOL and gets no help.  They treat parents like everyone has a flexible job or SAHP, basically.  And that's not equity.  [b]Soooo many of the families say all the woke stuff, but really they're at ITS to avoid the high-poverty, high-trauma environment of Ward 5 DCPS, and they know it.  So it's really awkward.[/b][/quote]

Huh. I hear this about DC Bilingual too. That MC families like to say the right things, but there is a lot of underlying tension in what those parents are advocating for in the school and what the lower SES families need and want from the school. I hope that as these schools implement the at-risk preference, that they have the hard conversations and administrators can stay firm to actually creating a welcoming school community for the at-risk families they bring in. I don't think it's just ITS or DCB that has these internal tensions, but I think the schools that chose to offer the at-risk preference have a special obligation to put their money where their mouth is and do better for the at-risk families in their schools. [/quote]

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